Seriously. Every form of entertainment has baked-in political assumptions, and that definitely includes #ttrpg . You might choose not to examine them, but this is an active choice on your part, and you don’t get to pretend that your entertainment is “free of politics”.
You picked games that were built around the politics, and especially in case of NV did it very well.
Let’s pick an example where politics are hamfisted and poorly: Last of Us 2. I can imagine a Last of Us without hamfisted politics, or actually, even better than that: I don’t have to imagine. I can just look at Last of Us 1.
As a great counter-example from another type of media: a significant character in the TV series Pluribus is gay. You can easily spend several episodes watching the series without even realizing that, because for the most part, it has no significance on the story. It does has some significance later on, but it’s portrayed brilliantly and without the hamfisting I mentioned.
I’m not opposed to politics, also when it’s politics I disagree with. I’m opposed to bad storytelling. Sometimes the line between the two is not clear.
meh. artists grow over time. and studios grow in the flexibility they have to message. support another studio that gives you what you want.
What’s-her-face being gay is like the least political thing about Pluribus.